Zoomy's thing

We finished the competition yesterday more or less on time, so I was planning to not stay the extra night in London and come back home inste...

London is awesome! You can hire bikes for next to nothing and ride them all around the city and then drop them off in the amazing computeris...

I like serendipity. I've been reading my way through the complete Sherlock Holmes in spare moments, and on the train journey down to Lon...

Tomorrow I'm going to London! Stay tuned for exciting accounts of Thursday and Friday's competition! I'm staying in a hall of re...

Another of the Google searches that lead a lot of people to my blog is "Douglas Fairbanks Jr gay" or variants thereof. I didn'...

And I'm still determined to keep up the daily chronicle. But it's past my bedtime already, and I do need to get up early tomorrow fo...

I know I probably say this every year, but it's so great when the football season starts again. Match Of The Day on a Saturday night is ...

One last practice of memory stuff this weekend, then two days of work, then I've got Wednesday off to travel down to London before the c...

The press release for this year's UK Memory Championship is basically last year's press release with a few subtle changes, so it sti...

There's no getting around it, I need to work. I've had the day off, all by myself, the brother's gone back to China, and I'v...

Hooray, because I've got my new Order of the Stick book today - not reprints of the awesome webcomic, which has just passed its 800th e...

I seem to be getting a lot of news updates about mind sports lately, so I felt that I should pass them on. The World Memory Championship has...

As I've mentioned on this blog once or twice before, I'm fascinated by the work of "Marc", the illustrator of cheap cartoo...

... You might want to check out Rrrants at "Laughing Horse at the Pear Tree", which might be a pub, although the website doesn...

My computer developed a thing where Internet Explorer and Firefox kept trying to open new windows, so I did a search on google and found tha...

So this will do for tonight.

There are three memory competitions in the next month and a half, that hopefully I'll be going to if I've got enough money. The U...

Yesterday I saw myself in a mirror and thought I looked really quite good. This doesn't happen very often (because, let's face it, I...

"The Door" is a 1968 cartoon which is probably on YouTube, but is impossible to find because it's just called "The Door...

Temporarily back with Boots again for the short-term future - exactly how short-term depends on whether a regular work schedule helps me wit...